Thursday, August 18, 2011

Elizabeth Berkley : Ask Elizabeth

Elizabeth Berkley was born July 28, 1972 in Farmington Hills, Oakland County, Michigan. She is the daughter of Jere, a gift basket business owner, and Fred Berkley, a lawyer. Berkley's most notable roles were in the television series Saved by the Bell, as brainy feminist Jessie Spano. 

Before founding Ask Elizabeth, an organization devoted to helping teenage girls to answer various questions about life.  It all started five years ago. Thanks to reap success through the series, many young girls who come to him asking for autographs. Instead of simply writing his name on something, Berkley actually engage in conversation and ask about them.

What started as a discussion was then grown from two to five girls. This figure continues to grow, to Berkley and then used to converse with them in a mall and talking like a brother.

In 2006, after her husband, Greg Lauren, commented about the number of teenage girls who came to counsel her, Berkley decided to take action and create a site to help the girls.

Sites that facilitated his own in the form of a self-esteem program called Ask Elizabeth. Berkley regularly meet with young girls to discuss various topics and issues, in order to help them deal with problems encountered and passed.

''Everyone's just talking about the various problems encountered by teenage girls and what they face. But, for me, there are gaps about how they helped or served.
I thought, 'Wow, I wanted to create something,''' she once was quoted as saying shelf-life.ew.com site.

Thus the organization she created. Berkley worked with an interactive workshop format for two hours in various libraries, cafeteria, or school football field. Participants specifically teenage girls, who feel the positive impact of the workshop.

''This idea spread like wildfire. Schools, administrators, and parents, really word of mouth, completely grassroots. I'm not doing any publicity for two years. This goes organic,'' she said as quoted more.com website.

The workshop seeks to create a safe environment for teen girls, to discuss their personal problems. Everything from family problems to romance and body image and bullying, is discussed here. After jumping from one school to another in different parts of the United States, Berkley began to see a trend forming.

''I see that everywhere I go across the country, there are a bunch of questions that must be asked. I will track it down and put it into categories. Such as body image, school, family, friendships, he said it, the emotional life of a teenage girl,'' she said.

All the universal sentiment was then poured into her book Berkley, Ask Elizabeth, which was published in March 2011

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